Better Graphs
Teach agents to stop making plain Matplotlib slop
Details
- External ID
- 48705038
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Better Graphs
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- June 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.31420765027322406
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
https://github.com/temataro/better-graphsI want to teach good Matplotlib taste to agents and humans. This repo contains: 1. Agent instructions + design motifs (Claude Code skills + a CLAUDE.md). 2. An online "blog" tutorial of the same skills, for people. 3. minerva.mplstyle, my opinionated sane matplotlib defaults.Inspired by Tufte's book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (a gift from my boss!), plus data-to-viz.com and the python-graph-gallery. Aiming for halfway to the gorgeous plots in the paid matplotlib-journey.com, but free and open to share with friends. :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai coding agents and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- visualization tools for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a collection of prompt guidelines, configuration files (minerva.mplstyle), and static documentation/tutorials for styling Matplotlib charts.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: data-to-viz.com, python-graph-gallery, matplotlib-journey (paid course), Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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